[escenic_image id="55200302"] Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World Marina Ottaway and Amr Hamzawy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2009 Many regimes in the Arab…

[escenic_image id="55192723"]Within the major artistic developments in the Arab world during the past decade, the genre of experimental video documentary stands out as one of the most important, and…

[escenic_image id="55183403"] Hezbollah: The Story from Within Naim Qassem, translated by Dalia Khalil Saqi 2010 £9.99 Lebanon’s decline into a state of civil turmoil and escalated…

[escenic_image id="55183240"] Middle Eastern film production is experiencing a renaissance. There has been a substantial growth in films produced in the Middle East, improved film quality, and…

[escenic_image id="55178366"]Flying in over the white-domed roofs of Muscat at night, I was already experiencing a gentle surge of pleasure at returning to one of the most attractive capitals in the…

[escenic_image id="55174182"] Brothers in Arms: The story of Al-Qaeda and the Arab jihadists Camille Tawil SAQI 2010 £14.99 In this condensed English translation of Camille Tawil’s original…

[escenic_image id="55165703"]Certain cities seem to conjure up a wealth of images at the mere mentioning of their names. Damascus, just like Paris and Venice, is such a place. Hardly any other place…

[escenic_image id="55163788"] Blood and Gifts World premiere at the National Theatre, London September 2010 to 14 November Blood and Gifts by American writer JT Rogers is an epic political…

[escenic_image id="55160856"]KABUL: The Pashtun warlord’s son arranged our audience in the plush living room of a villa thronged by petitioners and guarded by men dressed in army uniforms, armed with…

[escenic_image id="55160846"] Ethnicities and Global Multiculture: Pants for an octopus Jan Nederveen Pieterse Rowman and Littlefield Publshers, Inc. 2007 £16.10 Pieterse’s work is academic,…